tombstoning
n.— «The eight-man teams spend 60 to 90 days…preventing such abuses as “tombstoning” on the payroll (the Vietnamese commanders’ practice of collecting pay for dead or departed soliders, rather than replacing them).» —“Changing the Guard” by Robert Keatley in Leuong Qoui, South Vietnam Wall Street Journal Sept. 8, 1969. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
How and why do words from one language find their way into another? Vietnamese, for instance, includes lots of words borrowed or adapted from French. Such linguistic mixing often happens when languages brush up against each other and speakers reach...
How and why do words from one language find their way into another? Vietnamese, for instance, includes many words borrowed or adapted from French, a vestige of colonialism. For example, the Vietnamese word for “train station,” ga, comes...